Eradication

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Submission received: 30 January 2024 / Revised: 22 March 2024 / Accepted: 24 March 2024 / Published: 28 March 2024 Abstract Chronic…

1. BackgroundSignificant progress has been made toward polio eradication. Of the three polio serotypes, currently, only wild-type poliovirus (WPV) type 1 is actively circulating in two remaining countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan .…

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1. IntroductionCholera is a highly infectious gastrointestinal disease characterized by excessive watery diarrhea and rapid severe dehydration, putting infected individuals at high risk of body fluid loss and death. Cholera is…

Summary What is already known about this topic? Cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) have decreased from an estimated 3.5 million in 1986 to 27 in 2020. Emergence of Guinea worm infections in dogs in 2012 has complicated…

Immunization Activities The estimated national routine vaccination coverage with the third dose of bivalent OPV (bOPV containing Sabin types 1 and 3) (OPV3) among children aged 12 months was 73% during 2018 and 2019; the estimated…

Immunization Activities The estimated national routine vaccination coverage with the third dose of bivalent OPV (bOPV containing Sabin types 1 and 3) (OPV3) among children aged 12 months was 73% during 2018 and 2019; the estimated…

Summary What is already known about this topic Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance, the primary means of tracking poliovirus transmission, is supplemented by environmental surveillance of sewage samples. The COVID-19 pandemic…

Audrey Rachlin, PhD1,2; Jaymin C. Patel, PhD2; Cara C. Burns, PhD3; Jaume Jorba, PhD3; Graham Tallis, MBBS4; Aidan O’Leary, MA4; Steven G.F. Wassilak, MD2; John F. Vertefeuille, PhD2 (View author affiliations) View suggested…

Results Immunization Activities WHO and UNICEF estimated national 3-dose OPV coverage in Afghanistan among children aged 12–23 months to be 76% during 2022 and 71% during 2021. In 2015, the Global Commission for the Certification of the…

Vaccines save at least 4 to 5 million lives every year. This remarkable success story is the result of massive immunization campaigns that have swept round the world in recent decades. Smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions,…